The computer I use isnt top of the line and with Fiesta, a web browser, and video im watching while I vend on fiesta, my computer usage is only 50% Ive only got 1gb of ram.

games have the habit to never go into idle. In other words: taking all the cpu time they can get. To solve these problem ether lower the priority of fiesta, or raise the priority of the player.

To do that, press [ctrl][alt][del] at the same time. These way u open up the process manager.
There u go into the "Processes"-Tab, there u can see all the running Processes.
Right click on ether "fiesta.bin" for fiesta or "wmplayer.exe" for windows media player and choose a Priority.
Lower the Priority to let other processes speed up, or raise its Priority to speed up the process.
The best is if u raise the Priority of "wmplayer.exe".

Note: Do never raise the Priority to the highest level, unless u know what u are doing. Raising the level a little is mostly enough.

Ares works fine with fiesta for me... even thought it is a p2p sharing program.

Hrm, good thread - the SLI bit is interesting. I'll have to keep it in mind, since I just ordered a new SLI computer. I'll be very sad if I have performance issues on that ;_;

I'd recommend canceling the order if possible. SLI doesn't give as much a performance gain as you'd think it gave as most games have little to no support for it. Add in the fact that many games have problems with SLI, I don't find its worth it at all. Performance gain in SLI is just not worth the money spent. You'd gain more performance, save yourself the headache from problems, and save a bit of money, if you were to get one *better* video card (such as a single 8800 GTS/GTX, ~$270/$500) than going SLI with say, 8600 GTS (~$170 x2 = 340 total).

i have been looking into that quite a bit. thanks for pointing that out kixira.

when the 7000 series nvidia cards come out in december, i'm likely only going to buy one, so you just saved me a sizable amount of cash.

I cant even remember what graphix card and modem this comp has now its like 2 years old rofl!!! I know it had the best it like could have though when we got it made for us :D

Eh ? I don't really see the point in this post but, Fiesta isn't a demanding game one bit in terms of Specs. It has about the same specs as World of Warcraft and that doesn't seem to bother 8million people.

it was an issue of screenlag caused by my SLi. the problem has long since been solved.

eh i think im the worse here 224 mbs of ram playing fiesta which is dumb i know but what can ya do when ya cant but ne ram sticks :P